AUNT HILDA’S LETTER.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20541, 16 February 1935, Page 22 (Supplement)

AUNT HILDA’S LETTER.

STILL TIME TO START. Put on Your Running Shoes. J)EAR STARLETS Some of our more experienced Starlet runners are already well ahead in the Mark Race, but quite a number of little late-comers have not even managed to lace their running shoes yet. Now to all the little people who did not hop straight off at the first signal, I would like to point out that it is not a bit too late to run. Each one of you will run a race of your own, and I am just as interested in following the progress of the last runner as the first. Start now and see what point of merit you can reach by the end of the year! A revision of Circle rules will help you along more easily and quickly, and perhaps save you many a lost mark. Will my younger nephews and nieces who are puzzled to know when to mark their work “ original ” please remember that original work is that which is done entirely by your own unaided efforts—something you have “ made up ” yourselves. Copied work must be marked “ copied.” Every contribution, however small, should be clearly signed, and when sending a big budget it helps us a great deal if you pin the pages all together. Many a good story has to be discarded because you forget to write in ink and on only one side of the paper, and the same often happens to a drawing because you have not remembered to use Indian ink. Good Circle artists know that every piece of a picture must be painted or crayoned before it is considered finished, and, when mounting, only the merest scrap of paste is necessary. Is all this quite clear now to the smaller Starlets? Well, then, off you go and see how far you can.run in a year. Wouldn’t you be tired if this were an ordinary race? But it isn’t, it’s a special kind of Starland Mark Race! Ha! Ha! One more thing—the Holiday Sprite has just popped in to say, “ What about Mr Bad Spelling and the competitions?” and that reminds me to tell you that a word spelt wrongly in a competition answer often means the loss of a mark, too. I shall be happy to help you if there is anything about the race itself which you do not understand, so be sure to ask if you are puzzled. Keep every single-printed mark safely in your note-books. Cheerio and love, from